Art & Art History
The principal theories of art and criticism from symbolism until 1945: formalism and modernism, abstraction, surrealism, Marxism, and social art histories, phenomenology, existentialism. Recommended preparation: VIS 112 or two…
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University of California-San Diego · Art & Art History
2.0% of University of California-San Diego's Art & Art History course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Art & Art History departments, it is 3.8%.
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Where Art & Art History courses fall
0%Far left92–100
40%Left75–91
53%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
7%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
Subject places what a course studies, not the side it takes. A course on slavery or the Holocaust lands far right and a course on Marx or the Soviet Union lands far left, whether the course praises, criticizes or simply describes it.
Furthest-left subjects
Art & Art History
A survey of contemporary art practices of Africa and the African diaspora with a focus on intersectionality and critical and decolonial theory. Particular attention will be drawn to international perennial exhibitions, non-traditional…
Art & Art History
Introduction for art history majors to a wide range of critical and theoretical approaches to the image and to key methodologies of art history, including iconography, formalism, psychological theories of art, social art history, feminism,…
Furthest-right subjects
Art & Art History
Examines the social and political effects of represented faces in classical, medieval, Renaissance, modern, and some non-Western contexts. We will look at the face of God, facial grotesques, pseudosciences such as physiognomy, and faces in…
Why this number, in plain words
Share of courses described from the left. Percent of all courses in the group whose Framing reading is leftward: the description frames its subject one-sidedly to the left.
Counted: all courses in the group, including N and I. No interval is published for this number.
- Readings are of catalog description text, not of teaching, syllabi or individual professors.
Details: exact rows, definitions and method
| Name | Metric | Value | 95% interval | n | scored |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of California-San Diego · Art & Art History | bias_left_share | 2.0 | — | 256 | — |
| Art & Art History | bias_left_share | 3.8 | 3.5 – 4.2 | 14,866 | — |
- Formula
- 100 * count(bias_cat = 'L') / n
- Interval
- Wilson score 95% (wilson_interval)
- Model / prompt / snapshot
- gpt-5.6-sol · r12 (2026-10-16-le49-r12) · 6df50b10
- Metric caveats
- Right-framed courses are almost absent (33 of 124,290); this run cannot tell catalog reality from model sensitivity. Compare schools with adjusted_ratio, not this raw share, because department mix differs.
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